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Longley, Emily. "Like Me: Generation Z, Instagram, and Self-Branding Practices." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2018. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1093.
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The newest generation, raised and immersed in today's hyper-consumer culture, has learned to define the self within a neoliberal and capitalist framework in which self-branding and ascribing to hegemonic principles appears imperative to one’s personal success.
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Watkins, Glenn S. "A biblically based strategy for building local church community transforming the me generation into the we generation /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1992. http://www.tren.com.
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Bermudez, Jorge A. "One Script, Two Perspectives: Generation Me and The Staging of Really Really." VCU Scholars Compass, 2015. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/3864.
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One Script, Two Perspectives: Generation Me and The Staging of Really Really is a reflection on the approach, pre-production, rehearsal and post-production phases of the play, Really Really by Paul Downs Colaizzo, which debuted in the Shafer Street Playhouse on February 20, 2015 on the campus of Virginia Commonwealth University. The cast included Kaelie Ukrop, Adam Valentine, Ethan Malamud, Telos Fuller, Solomon Dixon, Molly Kaufman, and Katie Stoddard.
This paper looks at the processes involved with the creation of that piece. Focus is given to the problems and challenges involved with casting, production, rehearsals, post-production and effective directing methods.
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Hensley, Kirstin R. "One Script, Two Perspectives: Generation Me and the Staging of Really Really." VCU Scholars Compass, 2015. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/3866.
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Really, Really, by Paul Downs Colaizzo, is loosely based on the 2006 Duke University sexual assault scandal resulting from what proved to be a false accusation of rape made against three members of the men’s lacrosse team. After individually reading the play, Jorge Burmudez and I both arrived at differing opinions of who was the true victim, in turn inspiring this thesis, which is an exploration of two separate productions of the play demonstrating contrasting perspectives/outlooks regarding sex crimes within sports organizations in the university setting. It will describe our process from conceptualization to a post-mortem talking about particular challenges we faced along with feedback from both casts and audience members who saw the shows. Included will also be my experience with pre-production, auditions/casting, rehearsal journals and post-production documentation of my individual directorial processes. In the end, we are researching where the blame lies in the crime detailed in this play.
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Liu, Moxian. "Semi-automated mobile television interactive application generation based on XHTML and Java ME." Thesis, Brunel University, 2011. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/5074.
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Mobile Digital TV (MDTV), the hybrid of Digital Television (DTV) and mobile devices (such as mobile phones), has introduced a new way for people to watch DTV and has brought new opportunities for development in the DTV industry. Nowadays, the development of the next generation MDTV service has progressed in terms of both hardware layers and software, with interactive services/applications becoming one of the future MDTV service trends. However, current MDTV interactive services still lack in terms of attracting the consumers and the service creation and implementation process relies too much on commercial solutions, resulting in most parts of the process being proprietary. In addition, this has increased the technical demands for developers as well as has increased substantially the cost of producing and maintaining MDTV services. In light of the aforementioned situation, the Thesis has contributed to this field, by proposing an innovative MDTV service creation and consumption system based on XHTML and Java ME. On the head-end it introduces a semi-automatic creation mechanism to facilitate a less technical and more efficient interactive service creation process. This enables designers and creative individuals to be actively involved in the MDTV service creation process and to develop interactive-rich MDTV service. On the client-end it employs an open-source software environment as the interactive service MDTV consumption platform, rendering the MDTV service implementation process as less proprietary as possible. Furthermore, the Thesis offers a discussion on the different MDTV interactive application models currently used and based on the proposed software, a novel MDTV service presentation method is further introduced and adopted instead of the Rich Media and ECMAScript based methods. Finally, a series of qualitative testing procedures have been implemented with regards to conducting an essential evaluation on the operability of the proposed software system.
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De, Loera Yolanda Stephanie. "Entre Mis Mundos Me Encontre| First-Generation Chicanas/Latinas' Experiences in Higher Education." Thesis, University of Redlands, 2019. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=13425779.
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Existing research illustrates that although Latinos make up the largest ethnic minority group in the country, Latinos continue to have the lowest college degree attainment rates (Ramirez, 2014). Despite the increasing rates of high school graduation rates, there remains a large educational achievement gap between Latinos and their white and Asian counterparts (Pérez Huber, Malagon, Ramirez, Camargo Gonzalez, Jimenez, & Vélez, 2015). As we see the increase of the Latino population, it is important to highlight the disparities between Latina and Latino students. Although female students over exceed in enrollment and retention numbers across K-12 and higher education over their male counterparts, they continue to graduate and attain degrees at a lower rate (Pérez Huber, Vélez, & Solórzano, 2014).
This study serves to highlight the experiences first-generation Chicanas/Latinas have within higher education, their navigation and negotiation within academia, their personal sectors as that of self-wellness and family, and the barriers they face within higher education and their personal identities. The research used a qualitative counter-narrative case study inquiry approach to interview, observe, and analyze the experiences of first-generation Chicanas/Latinas in higher education. Latino Critical Race (LaCrit) (Solórzano & Yosso, 2001), Chicana Feminist Theory (Moraga & Anzaldúa, 1983; Delgado Bernal & Elenes, 2011), and Critical Consciousness (Freire, 2007) guide the theoretical framework of this study. Therefore, this study will add to the existing literature by conducting counter-narrative testimonios of five muxeres who illustrated their pathways in higher education while maintaining their various identities.
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Clements, Alyssa. "Generation Me: Millennial Intercultural Sensitivity and Conflict Management Styles in the Group Setting." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/22291.
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The Millennial Generation is a young generation now required to effectively and efficiently navigate the cultural diversity that they encounter in various group settings throughout the United States. Research has examined conflict management styles and intercultural sensitivity, but few studies have investigated these two concepts specifically within the Millennial Generation. The purpose of this study is to fill the gap that exists in the current literature through an examination of the relationship between intercultural sensitivity and conflict management styles within the Millennial Generation in a hypothetical intercultural group setting. The results from 221 participants indicate that positive and negative relationships exist among the dimensions of intercultural sensitivity and conflict management styles, Millennials show a preference for conflict management styles that reflect a concern for self, and Millennials report high Interaction Confidence and low Respect for Cultural Difference. Limitations and directions for future research are also discussed.
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Linder, Patricia Lynne. "An Analysis of Self-Directed Learning of First-Year, First-Generation College Students." Scholar Commons, 2013. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4529.
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The purpose of this study was to examine the reflective essays of first-year, first-generation college students for evidence of self-directed learning at the conclusion of their first semester at the university. A phenomenological qualitative method was employed and a content analysis rating rubric used to identify and code evidence related to four themes: Self Awareness, Decoding and Pattern Fit, Autonomy/Responsibility, and Academic Success.
The study findings indicated that first-year, first-generation college students have the capacity to take ownership of their learning in ways exemplified by self-directed learners. Participants demonstrated deep reflection and metacognition and their essays revealed unexpected student vulnerability as they voiced fears and hopes with a nearly innocent transparency and candor. Study findings also emphasized the importance of a support system that includes coursework designed to facilitate understanding of individual learner characteristics, emphasize strategies to maximize learner efforts that lead to successful outcomes, and empower students to become more self-directed. This study also expands the field of adult education by providing evidence that learner control is a key component of self-direction and is positively correlated to academic success. Ample evidence related to metacognition, self-regulation, and learner control was identified in the essay data.
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Ryberg, Ida. "What’s in it for me? : En studie av motivationsfaktorer bakom ideellt arbete hos Generation Y." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för organisation och entreprenörskap (OE), 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-49479.
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Bakgrund Ideellt arbete är någonting som finns över hela världen och på flera olika nivåer. Dock är det många ideella organisationer som har börjat uppleva ett minskat deltagande och de har svårt att hitta aktiva medlemmar som är villiga att engagera sig på en långsiktig basis. Det finns vissa tecken på att detta delvis beror på att unga människor tillhörande Generation Y undviker att engagera sig ideellt. Samtidigt finns det tecken på att det motsatta gäller och att Generation Y gärna engagerar sig. Denna studie undersöker därför vad det är som får unga människor tillhörande Generation Y att engagera sig ideellt. Studien försöker också identifiera vad det är som får vissa personer tillhörande denna generation att fortsätta engagera sig över en längre tid samt vad det är som gör att vissa helt väljer att avstå från att arbeta ideellt. Syfte Syftet med studien är att identifiera motivationsfaktorer bakom ideellt arbete hos unga människor och därmed skapa en förståelse för vad det är som får vissa personer att fortsätta engagera sig ideellt på lång sikt eller vid upprepade tillfällen samtidigt som andra väljer att inte engagera sig ideellt över huvud taget. Metod Studien använder en induktiv ansats och en kvalitativ metod. Data har samlats in genom semistrukturerade intervjuer med tjugotvå olika personer med olika erfarenhet av ideellt arbete. Datan har därefter tolkats med hjälp av grundad teori. Slutsats Det som gör personer tillhörande Generation Y intresserade av att engagera sig i ideellt arbete är deras intresse för området, olika sociala aspekter samt möjligheten att spetsa sitt CV och bli mer attraktiva på arbetsmarknaden. Det som gör personer villiga att engagera sig över en längre tidsperiod är uppskattningen de får från organisationen, om de kan se att arbetet ger resultat, att de har roligt då de arbetar samt att de får ut något av sitt engagemang. Det som gör att andra väljer att inte engagera sig är ofta okunskap om hur de ska göra för att engagera sig samt om vad det finns för ideella organisationer i deras närhet och en missmatchning mellan dessa personers förväntningar på arbetet och vad som krävs av dem då de engagerar sig. Den största anledningen till att dessa personer väljer att inte arbeta ideellt tycks dock vara brist på intresse.
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Stewart, Kate Jennifer. "Kind of singing in me : a critical account of women writers of the Beat generation." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.515072.
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This thesis provides a critical account of women writers of the Beat generation. Writers such as Diane di Prima, Hettie Jones, Joanne Kyger, Joyce Johnson, Bonnie Bremser, and Janine Pommy Vega were part of the 1950s Beat literary culture and had social relationships with the more famous male Beat writers such as Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. To differing degrees the women writers have also been influenced by the aesthetics of the male writers, and since the 1950s their work has been contextualised alongside the men's in literary magazines, anthologies and more recent academic studies. But in such responses the women writers appear overshadowed by the male Beats, as 'minor characters', to quote the title of Joyce Johnson's memoir of the 1950s. The issue of women's 'minority' forms the premise of this thesis, and I introduce the minority debate through reference to the Beat canon and the issue of revisionism in relation to the wider literary canon. I cite theoretical models such as Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's 'rhizome' and 'nomadology' to support my argument. In their spatial form and terminology, these models express movement, which is pertinent since physical movement characterises the lifestyles, texts and myths of the Beat writers. Deleuze and Guattari' s theory can also express the destabilising which the notion of the woman writer brings to these images and myths. I argue that instead of proposing women writers as Beat writers we look to their difference. By reading the women's texts in relation to various themes -literary influence, the literary bohemian world of the city, the parental generation, and body, sexuality, and the road - I suggest difference is expressed in their writing. But rather than positing a distinct 'gynocritical' tradition in the terms set out by Elaine Showalter (1979), I highlight the differences between the women writers. By nature of its focus on little known texts and authors, and the critically undeveloped area of Beat literature and culture, this thesis is part literary history, part cultural history, part biography, as well as offering close readings of the texts. The texts discussed in this thesis have not only received little critical attention, they have not been read and contextualised against each other. In this thesis I do so, taking the broad historical and literary overview that women of the Beat generation have not received, as either writers or subjects.
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Beasley, Sarah Elizabeth. "Country Roads Take Me...?: An Ethnographic Case Study of College Pathways Among Rural, First-Generation Students." Thesis, Boston College, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/1827.
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Thesis advisor: Ted YounThe purpose of this study was to examine college pathways or college access and success of rural, first-generation students. Most research on college pathways for low- and moderate-income students focuses on those students as a whole or on urban low-socioeconomic status (SES) students. (Caution is in order when generalizing the experiences of low-SES urban students to those of low-SES rural students.) The literature reveals that rural students attend college at lower rates than their urban and suburban counterparts and are likely to have lower college aspirations. Why such differences exist remains highly speculative in the literature. Especially absent is knowledge about how rural culture interacts with rural student behavior. Current research on pathways primarily examines factors used to predict college aspirations, participation, and completion of rural students. This ethnographic case study examined why and how such factors influenced students in a rural, high poverty county in southern West Virginia. The study explored rural cultural values and how rural culture influenced college pathways. All students in the sample had attended high school in the selected county and were enrolled in West Virginia two- and four-year public institutions. This study found that attachment to family significantly influenced students' college-going decisions and behaviors. Students' parents, siblings, and extended family provided support and encouragement necessary for high educational aspirations, college-going, and persistence. Attachment to family made it difficult for students to leave the area. The decision to leave, return or stay was difficult for rural students given the strong attachment to family, place, and community; yet, the lack of economic opportunity in the area affected the decision as well. Cultural legacies, traditions, and norms influenced rural students' college-going and persistence. In addition to family's vital role in the success of rural students their high schools, communities, and peers were also relevant. Given the importance of family in the lives of rural students, local, institutional, state, and federal policies and practices must keep families involved and replicate family support models
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2011
Submitted to: Boston College. Lynch School of Education
Discipline: Educational Administration and Higher Education
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Zhao, Jingyan. "From us to me: cultural value changes from collectivism to individualism in Chinese commercials." Thesis, Kansas State University, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/35492.
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Master of ScienceDepartment of Journalism and Mass Communications
Curtis B. Matthews
China’s society has been changing since 1979, when the open-door policy was implemented. Many great events in politics, economy and culture have brought lots of diversities to the Chinese younger generation who were born after 1979. These diversities have led to a cultural value change from collectivism to individualism among this generation (Cao, 2009; Sun & Wang, 2010; Moore, 2005). Cultivation analysis theory may be appropriate to explain this phenomenon as the open-door policy allowed American and European TV programs and other media products come into China. Effective advertising should cater to its audience in order to effectively persuade them to purchase its merchandise or service (Zhang & Harwood, 2004; Chang, 2006). If the cultural value of the Chinese younger generation has changed, it may be reflected in the commercial content of successful advertisers. This research conducted a content analysis of Chinese commercials, comparing the commercial contents in recent years to approximately ten years ago. It examined if the individualistic factors were more frequently showed in the commercials in recent years than approximately ten years ago, with the consideration to merchandise type and production place. Research results exhibited an increase of individualism revealing in Chinese commercials from approximately 2006 to 2016.
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Stewart, Katie Jennifer. "'A kind of singing in me' : a critical account of women writers of the Beat generation." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2007. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/2805/.
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Woloszyn, Vinicius. "Tell me why : uma arquitetura para fornecer explicações sobre revisões." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/131906.
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O que as outras pessoas pensam sempre foi uma parte importante do processo de tomada de decisão. Por exemplo, as pessoas costumam consultar seus amigos para obter um parecer sobre um livro ou um filme ou um restaurante. Hoje em dia, os usuários publicam suas opiniões em sites de revisão colaborativa, como IMDB para filmes, Yelp para restaurantes e TripAdiviser para hotéis. Ao longo do tempo, esses sites têm construído um enorme banco de dados que conecta usuários, artigos e opiniões expressas por uma classificação numérica e um comentário de texto livre que explicam por que eles gostam ou não gostam de um item. Mas essa vasta quantidade de dados pode prejudicar o usuário a obter uma opinião. Muitos trabalhos relacionados fornecem uma interpretações de revisões para os usuários. Eles oferecem vantagens diferentes para vários tipos de resumos. No entanto, todos eles têm a mesma limitação: eles não fornecem resumos personalizados nem contrastantes comentários escritos por diferentes segmentos de colaboradores. Compreeder e contrastar comentários escritos por diferentes segmentos de revisores ainda é um problema de pesquisa em aberto. Assim, nosso trabalho propõe uma nova arquitetura, chamado Tell Me Why. TMW é um projeto desenvolvido no Laboratório de Informática Grenoble em cooperação com a Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul para fornecer aos usuários uma melhor compreensão dos comentários. Propomos uma combinação de análise de texto a partir de comentários com a mineração de dados estruturado resultante do cruzamento de dimensões do avaliador e item. Além disso, este trabalho realiza uma investigação sobre métodos de sumarização utilizados na revisão de produtos. A saída de nossa arquitetura consiste em declarações personalizadas de texto usando Geração de Linguagem Natural composto por atributos de itens e comentários resumidos que explicam a opinião das pessoas sobre um determinado assunto. Os resultados obtidos a partir de uma avaliação comparativa com a Revisão Mais Útil da Amazon revelam que é uma abordagem promissora e útil na opinião do usuário.What other people think has been always an important part of the process of decision-making. For instance, people usually consult their friends to get an opinion about a book, or a movie or a restaurant. Nowadays, users publish their opinions on collaborative reviewing sites such as IMDB for movies, Yelp for restaurants and TripAdvisor for hotels. Over the time, these sites have built a massive database that connects users, items and opinions expressed by a numeric rating and a free text review that explain why they like or dislike a specific item. But this vast amount of data can hamper the user to get an opinion. Several related work provide a review interpretations to the users. They offer different advantages for various types of summaries. However, they all have the same limitation: they do not provide personalized summaries nor contrasting reviews written by different segments of reviewers. Understanding and contrast reviews written by different segments of reviewers is still an open research problem. Our work proposes a new architecture, called Tell Me Why, which is a project developed at Grenoble Informatics Laboratory in cooperation with Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul to provide users a better understanding of reviews. We propose a combination of text analysis from reviews with mining structured data resulting from crossing reviewer and item dimensions. Additionally, this work performs an investigation of summarization methods utilized in review domain. The output of our architecture consists of personalized statement using Natural Language Generation that explain people’s opinion about a particular item. The evaluation reveal that it is a promising approach and useful in user’s opinion.
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Perticarrari, Daniel. "Foi com o trabalho que me tornei homem: trabalho, gênero e geração." Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 2007. https://repositorio.ufscar.br/handle/ufscar/1406.
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The research had as objective to study how the increase on the number of women labor force has affected the division of the domestic work and the construction of the masculine social identity based in the provider paper, through the workers' perception on this change. This study examines the re-meaning or reiteration of the gender identities, having as cross section the generation insertion in the world of the work. Forty two metallurgic workers of São Carlos, SP (being thirty men and twelve women) had been interviewing, recovering the trajectories of life and work and their gender attributions, in the industrial and domestic space. The choice of the metallurgic sector elapsed for consisting in a space of masculine work historically recognized, being this profile changed, slowly, in last the two decades. It was possible to verify a generation cross section that delimits the position of the workers in relation to the work division and their expectation on their gender identity. It has been noticed that the oldest workers (with more than 40 years old), still see in the formal job market (with steady work and labor register) the privileged way of access in the labor and familiar structuring and the construction and valuation of the masculine identity. Presence of a speech of bigger equality between men and women was verified in workers between 30 to 39 years old. Finally, it was observed that young workers (until 29 years old) have greater propensity to insert themselves in the logic of transformations of flexible capitalism, marked for the instability in the labor trajectories. This context has influenced some changes in the gender perception in relation to the sexual division of the work and the biggest dubiousness of the construction of the masculine identity entailed to the work
A pesquisa teve como objetivo estudar como a feminização crescente do mercado de trabalho tem afetado a divisão do trabalho doméstico e a construção da identidade social masculina baseada no papel de provedor, através da percepção dos trabalhadores sobre essa mudança. Examina a resignificação ou reiteração das identidades de gênero, tendo como recorte a inserção geracional no mundo do trabalho. Foram entrevistados quarenta e dois trabalhadores metalúrgicos da cidade de São Carlos SP (sendo trinta homens e doze mulheres), recuperando suas trajetórias de vida e trabalho bem como suas atribuições de gênero, no espaço fabril e doméstico. A escolha do setor metalúrgico decorreu por constituir-se, historicamente, num espaço de trabalho masculino por excelência, sendo que este perfil tem mudado lentamente nas últimas duas décadas. Foi possível verificar um recorte geracional que delimita a posição dos trabalhadores em relação à divisão do trabalho e sua expectativa em relação à sua identidade de gênero. Notouse que os trabalhadores mais velhos (com mais de 40 anos de idade), ainda vêem no mercado de trabalho formal, estável e com carteira assinada, a via de acesso privilegiada na estruturação laboral/familiar e na construção e valorização da identidade masculina. Entre os trabalhadores na faixa dos 30 aos 39 anos de idade verificou-se a presença de um discurso de maior igualdade entre homens e mulheres. Finalmente, observou-se que trabalhadores jovens (com até 29 anos de idade) têm maior propensão a se inserir de maneira mais ampla na lógica de transformações do capitalismo flexibilizado, marcada pela instabilidade nos trajetos laborais. Esse contexto tem influenciado algumas mudanças na percepção de gênero em relação à divisão sexual do trabalho e o maior questionamento da construção da identidade masculina vinculada ao trabalho
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DiGiammarino, Anna Maria. "Me and school the elementary and secondary school experiences of first-generation Canadian males of Italian heritage." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape3/PQDD_0026/MQ59166.pdf.
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Zevallos, Zuleyka, and zzevallos@swin edu au. "'You have to be Anglo and not look like me' : identity constructions of second generation migrant-Australian women." Swinburne University of Technology, 2004. http://adt.lib.swin.edu.au./public/adt-VSWT20050323.142704.
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My thesis explores the social construction of identity of 50 second generation migrant-Australian women aged 17 to 28 years using a qualitative methodology. I conducted in-depth semi-structured interviews with 25 women from Latin American backgrounds and 25 women from Turkish backgrounds. My study investigated the intersections of ethnicity, gender, sexuality and nationality. I found that the Latin women constructed their ethnic culture in reference to their country-of-origin traditions, and that they also identified with a pan-ethnic Latin culture that included migrants from other South and Central America countries. I found that the Turkish women constructed Turkish culture in reference to their religious practices, and they saw themselves as �Muslim-Turks� who identified with an Islamic pan-ethnic culture that included Muslim migrants from different national backgrounds. The women in both groups drew upon Anglo-Australian culture when it came to their gender and sexuality constructions. The Latin and Turkish women did not see themselves as �typical� women from their migrant communities. Instead, their sense of femininity was informed by what they saw as Australian egalitarianism. The women in both groups saw Anglo-Australians� gender relationships as an ideal, and as one woman said of Anglo-Australians, �how much more equal can you can get?� The women�s social construction of the nation was equally influenced by multiculturalism and an Anglo-Australian identity. They highly valued their Australian citizenship and felt positive about their lives in Australia. At the same time, they had faced ongoing racism and they reported that other people judged their Australian identities through racial characteristics. One woman said that in order for people to be accepted as Australian, �you have to be Anglo and not look like me�. Despite this sense of social exclusion, the majority of my sample held hybrid migrant-Australian identities. I develop a threefold typology of the women�s identities, and I found that 13 women did not see themselves as Australian, 36 women saw themselves as partly-Australian, and one woman held an exclusively Australian identity. I argue that narratives of multiculturalism and Anglo-Australian identity influenced the women�s social construction of identity. Their belief that Australian identity was multicultural was at odds with their experiences of racism and their own self identities, and so I examine the women�s beliefs in reference to an �ideology of multiculturalism�. This ideology supported the women�s contribution to the nation as second generation migrants, and ultimately, they expressed an unwavering support for Australian multiculturalism.
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Molin, Lucas, and Martin Lundell. "Employer branding - What´s in it for me? : En studie om meningsfullhet på arbetsplatsen och hur organisationer kan attrahera Generation Y." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Företagsekonomiska institutionen, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-355499.
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Today's labor market is experiencing a rapid change within the workforce. A new generation, generation Y, is entering the workforce and thus comes the slow and steady exit of generation X. The results lead to new preferences and values within work as generation Y brings new characteristics within the work environment. The present situation causes a problem for organizations, as well as for employees, because of the differences that develop, and organizations need to react to the transforming workforce. This study will chart and explain generation Y to give answers as to what preferences the generation possesses and what they seek within the workplace. This charting process is executed with the help of a global survey that was conducted by Universum in 2014 along with former theories within scientific areas. Moreover, to understand how organizations can react, we have contacted top workers within the Universum organization to help us understand the fundamentals of how organizations can counter this new generation. Results of the analysis and findings show us that generation Y is a cohort like no other before - looking for work within flexible environments, motivation from their superiors and the true meaning within work. Also, the study explains how organizations today need to tackle this emerging generation from a more datadriven method to truly understand the generation completely. Furthermore, how organizations also need to work with the term purpose and align it with the organization and potential future employee´s purpose.Employer branding (EB) innebär att företag applicerar marknadsföringstekniker inom rekryteringsprocessen för att attrahera nuvarande och potentiella medarbetare. Företagets employer brand förmedlas genom deras employer value proposition (EVP), det centrala verktyget inom EB. Företagets EVP erbjuder organisationer en chans att differentiera sig från andra företag genom att ta fram unika attribut, det vill säga utmärkande egenskaper hos organisationen. I dagens läge ser vi hur en ny generation, generation Y, träder in på arbetsmarknaden. Detta för med sig en förändring i hur organisationer bör tänka kring sitt employer brand eftersom generation Y besitter nya förväntningar på företag och arbetsplatser. Generation Y skiljer sig åt från tidigare generationer. De har en annorlunda syn på work-life balance, möjligheter till att snabbt avancera inom karriären samt meningsfullhet. Uppsatsen har i syfte att kartlägga hur generationens preferenser ser ut inom arbetsmarknaden samt hur organisationer i sin tur kan bemöta generation Y vid användandet av sin EB. För att kunna svara på problemformuleringen använder sig studien av semistrukturerade intervjuer som berör ämnet EB och ställer frågor kring hur generation Y skiljer sig från generationer i vad de vill ha och hur organisationer kan arbeta för att bemöta dem. Studien använder sig av intervjuer och sekundärdata i form av en undersökning som metod. Studien besvarar frågor och myter kring generation Y och kommer även med tips kring hur organisationer kan bemöta denna generation. Studien landar i slutsatsen att generation Y söker efter snabba framsteg inom karriären, mentorskap, work-life balance och meningsfullhet inom arbetet. Paradoxalt nog vill generation Y arbeta hårt för att avancera inom karriären men samtidigt erhålla work-life balance, något som är utmärkande för denna heterogena generation. Studien har funnit att organisationer inte kan forma sin EB mot generation Y utifrån trender eller generalisering av generationen. Ett mer datadrivet sätt att arbeta för att förstå sin målgrupp är att rekommendera. Vidare är det viktigt för organisationer att arbeta med begreppet purpose, både sitt eget och sina framtida anställdas. Detta innebär att organisationen tydliggör vad dem själva anser är meningsfullt och försöker finna individer som ligger i linje med vad som är framtaget. Avslutningsvis är det även viktigt för organisationer att tänka på trovärdighet inom sitt employer brand och se över vilka attribut som de redan har. Attribut som anses självklara kring företaget bör inte tas med i företagets EVP.Företag bör istället fokusera på attribut som väcker meningsfullhet hos generation Y och som anses attraherande för företagets önskade målgrupp. Emellertid måste attributen som finns med i företagets EVP anses som sanna och trovärdiga av målgruppen.
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Egger, Melissa, and Natalie Walter. "Comfort me : A qualitative study on the behaviour of Generation Y when purchasing the high-involvement product everyday bra." Thesis, Internationella Handelshögskolan, Högskolan i Jönköping, IHH, Företagsekonomi, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-43915.
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Background: It is an essential clothing piece for women, which is proven to enhance the consumers’ perception of themselves, namely a woman everyday bra. There seems to be a lack in recent research on women lingerie especially within the Generation Y. The complex purchase decision for the high-involvement product everyday bra in combination with the characteristics of this generation have a vital impact on their considerations. Purpose: The purpose of this thesis was to describe how Generation Y is considering the perceived influential factors in their purchase decision of the high-involvement product everyday bra. Thereby, an existing theory was extended by two new factors, namely psychosocial and physiological and tested on the Generation Y. To fulfil the purpose of this study, one research question was established. Method: An interpretivism philosophy was used as part of this study, along with an abductive approach. Descriptive research was conducted to analyse the qualitative data collected through 18 semi-structured in-depth interviews. To adequately reach the selected target population, a combination of convenient, judgmental and snowball sampling technique was employed. Conclusion: The empirical findings of this study suggest, that six factors are considered by Generation Y’s purchase decision. A remarkable recognition is given to comfort, followed by a high relevance of aesthetics and the remaining factors. This knowledge is highly relevant for lingerie companies, especially when considering the store layout and supplementary distribution channels such as e-commerce.
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Guizzo, Bianca Salazar. "'Aquele negrão me chamou de leitão' : representações e práticas corporais de embelezamento na educação infantil." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/28820.
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Na sociedade brasileira atual, questões relacionadas à aparência e à imagem do corpo são reconhecidas como elementos centrais nos processos de constituição de identidades desde a infância. Esta tese tem como questão central de pesquisa discutir em que medida as representações de beleza e de feiura compreendidas pelas crianças de uma turma de Educação Infantil pertencente a uma escola pública do município de Esteio/RS afetam a forma como as meninas lidam/investem com/nos seus corpos, delineando assim suas feminilidades. Os principais objetivos desta investigação são: 1) apresentar como determinadas representações de gênero, raça/cor, classe social e geração, construídas e reiteradas diariamente por meio das mais diversas pedagogias culturais e visuais, ecoam e circulam, como verdades quase que absolutas, no ambiente educacional infantil; 2) a partir dessas representações propagadas em diferentes meios culturais e sociais na contemporaneidade, mostrar como as meninas dessa turma investem em certas práticas corporais para serem consideradas belas. Levando em conta tais objetivos, foram apresentadas algumas situações desenvolvidas no cotidiano escolar da referida turma, para que as crianças pudessem expressar suas concepções a respeito do tema. Os resultados mostraram que as meninas, bem como os meninos, se preocupam com suas aparências e tais preocupações provavelmente são construídas a partir das representações e imagens aos quais elas/es têm acesso através de diversos meios. Em função da intensa presença de representações e imagens, meninas, em especial, são encorajadas a investir em seus corpos, o que colabora na constituição de suas identidades. Elas, muitas vezes, almejam ter corpos perfeitos e investem em práticas para esconderem seus “defeitos” e se parecerem com celebridades que admiram. Entretanto, tais práticas não foram aqui analisadas como “naturais” ao comportamento feminino, mas como parte de uma construção histórica, social e cultural. Para o desenvolvimento das análises foram utilizadas as contribuições dos Estudos de Gênero, dos Estudos Culturais e dos Estudos de Cultura Visual, especialmente aqueles que se aproximam da perspectiva pós-estruturalista de análise. Tais campos de estudos mostram-se produtivos na medida em que julgam que nossas identidades são forjadas e constituídas continuamente dentro de determinadas culturas, pela disputa constante de poder. Além disso, fornecem ferramentas para a análise de artefatos e acontecimentos que permeiam as arenas culturais e educacionais e que possuem grande relevância na produção das identidades infantis.In contemporary Brazilian society, questions of appearance and body image are recognized as central elements in the construction processes of children‟s identities. This thesis aims to discuss to what extent the representations of beauty and ugliness understood by children of an early childhood education class, from a public school in the municipality of Esteio/RS, affect the way girls deal with and invest in their bodies, and thus outline their femininities. The main focuses of this research are: 1) to present how certain representations of gender, race/color, social class and generation, built and repeated daily through a variety of cultural and visual pedagogies , reflect and circulate as almost absolute truths in the children's educational environment; 2) to show how the girls in this group get involved with certain bodily practices to be considered beautiful from representations spread among different cultural and social media in contemporaneity, Taking into account such objectives, some situations developed in the school everyday life were presented so that the children could express their ideas about the theme. The results showed that girls and boys are worried about their appearances and such concerns probably are constructed from images and representations to which they have access through various means. Due to the intense presence of representations and images, girls in particular are encouraged to invest in their bodies, which contribute in the formation of their identities. They often want to have perfect bodies and engage in practices to hide their "flaws" and resemble celebrities they admire. However, such practices were not analyzed here as a “natural" female behavior, but as part of a system of historical, social and cultural relations. For the development of such analyses, the contributions of Gender Studies, Cultural Studies and Visual Culture Studies were used, particularly those associated with the post-structuralism approaches. Such fields of study are productive to the extent that they believe that our identities are continually forged and incorporated within certain cultures by a constant struggle over power. In addition, they provide tools for the analysis of artifacts and events, which permeate the cultural and educational arenas and are relevant to the production of children's identities.
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Beal, Ramona Yvette. ""You mean they'll pay me to think?": How low-income, first-generation and underrepresented minority McNair students construct an academic identity as scholar." Connect to online resource, 2007. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3273744.
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LUPO, GIUSEPPE FRANCESCO DAMIANO. "RUOLO POTENZIALE DEL MICROBIOMA NELLA SINDROME DA AFFATICAMENTO CRONICO/ ENCEFALOMIELITE MIALGICA (CFS/ME)." Doctoral thesis, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10280/72840.
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La Sindrome da Affaticamento Cronico/Encefalomielite Mialgica (CFS/ME), è una grave malattia multisistemica caratterizzata da anomalie immunologiche e disfunzioni del metabolismo energetico.
Recenti evidenze suggeriscono l’esistenza di una forte correlazione tra disbiosi e condizione patologica. La presente ricerca ha analizzato la composizione del microbiota intestinale ed orale in pazienti con CFS/ME rispetto a controlli sani e ha determinato se eventuali differenze osservate potrebbero essere utili in futuro per l'identificazione di biomarcatori diagnostici.
La composizione batterica fecale e salivare dei pazienti con CFS/ME è stata studiata mediante sequenziamento Illumina degli ampliconi del gene 16S rRNA.
Il microbiota fecale dei pazienti con CFS/ME ha mostrato una significativa riduzione di Lachnospiraceae, in particolare di Anaerostipes, rispetto ai gruppi di soggetti senza CFS/ME e un incremento di Phascolarctobacterium faecium e unclassified Ruminococcus. Bacteroides vulgatus, unclassified Bacteroides, Bacteroides uniformis e unclassified Barnesiella sono risultati significativamente più abbondanti nei pazienti con CFS/ME.
Il microbiota orale dei pazienti con CFS/ME ha mostrato un aumento significativo di Rothia dentocariosa. Il profilo metabolico fecale di un sottogruppo di pazienti con CFS/ME ha mostrato un aumento complessivo di SCFA e di derivati dell'indolo rispetto ai gruppi non CFS/ME, suggerendo un aumento dei processi di fermentazione.
I nostri risultati supportano l'ipotesi autoimmune per la CFS/ME e se saranno confermati da studi più ampi, le differenze rilevate nei profili microbici dei pazienti CFS/ME potrebbero essere utilizzate come markers per una diagnosi più accurata e per lo sviluppo di strategie terapeutiche specifiche.The Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME), is a severe multisystemic disease characterized by immunological abnormalities and dysfunction of energy metabolism. Recent evidence suggest that there is a strong correlation between dysbiosis and pathological condition. The present research investigated the composition of the intestinal and oral microbiota in CFS/ME patients in comparison to healthy controls and determined whether any observed differences could be useful for the identification of diagnostic biomarkers. The fecal and salivary bacterial composition in CFS/ME patients was investigated by Illumina sequencing of 16S rRNA gene amplicons. The fecal microbiota of CFS/ME patients showed a significant reduction of Lachnospiraceae, particularly Anaerostipes, compared to the non-CFS/ME groups, and an increase of Phascolarctobacterium faecium and unclassified Ruminococcus. Bacteroides vulgatus, unclassified Bacteroides, Bacteroides uniformis and unclassified Barnesiella resulted significantly more abundant in CFS/ME patients. The oral microbiota of CFS/ME patients showed a significant increase of Rothia dentocariosa. The fecal metabolic profile of a subgroup of CFS/ME patients revealed an overall increase of SCFAs and indole derivatives compared to the non-CFS/ME groups, suggesting an increase in the fermentation processes. Our results support the autoimmune hypothesis for CFS/ME condition and if confirmed by larger studies, the differences detected in the microbial profiles of CFS/ME patients may be used as markers for a more accurate diagnosis and for the development of specific therapeutic strategies.
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Calin, Ebru. ""I married someone not the same as me" : Narratives Of Lived Identity Experiences Of Second-Generation Mexican Americans and White Americans and The Role Of Race, Power, and Interracial Relationships." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Malmö högskola, Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-39421.
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Leaning on the framework of Critical Race and Whiteness Theory, this qualitative study draws on semi-structured interviews with second-generation Mexican Americans and White Americans to offer a yet untaken perspective on the fragmented nature of identity. It also sheds light on the ways racism and interracial relationships shape individuals’ notions of race and privilege. The study’s findings indicate that Mexicans perceive themselves as a distinct racial group situated in a “third space,” marked by a dialectic between externally ascribed and internally attributed racial identity categories. White individuals use color and power-evasion strategies to avoid cognizance of their own racial identities. However, their interracial relationships provide a meaningful premise altering the ways they perceive notions of race and White privilege. Shifts in White individuals’ perspectives occur in relation to heightened race consciousness, acknowledging White privilege, and racial inequality and includes behavioral changes resulting from their interactions with their significant others.
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de, Beer Mostyn. "You First Then Me : Exploring Complexity with Art Workshops." Thesis, Konstfack, IBIS - Institutionen för bild- och slöjdpedagogik, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:konstfack:diva-7475.
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This work takes as its starting point the idea that awareness and understanding of the complex nature of relationships, among people and the natural and built environment, is of crucial importance against the background of the ongoing environmental crisis. The author explores how holding art workshops can contribute with specific knowledge about this complexity. In early 2020, the author held art workshops in the South African port city of Durban, in a gallery area adjacent to a park. Qualitative methods, including ethnography and visual methods, were put to use in the study which developed from this project. The stages of fieldwork, processing and analysis are described in detail. The study’s posthumanist theoretical framework draws in insights from Arts-Based Environmental Education and Art Education for Sustainable Development, as well as current thinking about design and creativity. These ideas, together with the choice of methods, facilitated an awareness of correspondences, or productive similarities, among elements from the workshops and the surrounding area. Noticing correspondences like these widened the project’s focus to include informants, groups and stories from the edges of the field, and opened up possibilities for relating local insights to larger concerns. The study considers how holding art workshops can provide opportunities for research into environmental, educational and social issues. It concludes with a discussion about how thinking about complexity can be productive within the field of Art Education.
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Dworak, Jennifer Lynn. "Modeling defective part level due to static and dynamic defects based upon site observation and excitation balance." Diss., Texas A&M University, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/323.
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Manufacture testing of digital integrated circuits is essential for high quality. However, exhaustive testing is impractical, and only a small subset of all possible test patterns (or test pattern pairs) may be applied. Thus, it is crucial to choose a subset that detects a high percentage of the defective parts and produces a low defective part level. Historically, test pattern generation has often been seen as a deterministic endeavor. Test sets are generated to deterministically ensure that a large percentage of the targeted faults are detected. However, many real defects do not behave like these faults, and a test set that detects them all may still miss many defects. Unfortunately, modeling all possible defects as faults is impractical. Thus, it is important to fortuitously detect unmodeled defects using high quality test sets. To maximize fortuitous detection, we do not assume a high correlation between faults and actual defects. Instead, we look at the common requirements for all defect detection. We deterministically maximize the observations of the leastobserved sites while randomly exciting the defects that may be present. The resulting decrease in defective part level is estimated using the MPGD model. This dissertation describes the MPGD defective part level model and shows how it can be used to predict defective part levels resulting from static defect detection. Unlike many other predictors, its predictions are a function of site observations, not fault coverage, and thus it is generally more accurate at high fault coverages. Furthermore, its components model the physical realities of site observation and defect excitation, and thus it can be used to give insight into better test generation strategies. Next, we investigate the effect of additional constraints on the fortuitous detection of defects-specifically, as we focus on detecting dynamic defects instead of static ones. We show that the quality of the randomness of excitation becomes increasingly important as defect complexity increases. We introduce a new metric, called excitation balance, to estimate the quality of the excitation, and we show how excitation balance relates to the constant τ in the MPGD model.
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Johnson, Ronald M. "Follow Me! Followership, Leadership and the Multigenerational Workforce." NSUWorks, 2014. http://nsuworks.nova.edu/hsbe_etd/3.
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This research was designed to develop an understanding of today's multigenerational workforce with respect to a preferred styles or characteristics of followership and leadership. Specifically this research sought to determine if there was a relationship between an individual's generational cohort and the preferred styles of leadership and followership, as measured by implicit theories of leadership and followership. Therefore, this study draws upon generational theory (Mannheim, 1952), implicit theories of leadership (Epitropaki & Martin, 2004) and implicit theories of followership (Sy, 2010). The changes in the composition of the US workforce which have occurred, and which will continue to occur in the near future, make it appropriate and timely to jointly examine followership and leadership, particularly from a generational perspective. By examining the various US workforce generational cohorts, the potential exists to uncover additional insight that has been absent from the extant literature. The sample population consisted of Baby Boomer, Gen X and Millennial employees drawn from individuals working for an integrated delivery and financing system in the Northeastern US, as well as individuals recruited via social media (N = 249). The implicit leadership scale (Epitropaki & Martin, 2004) was utilized to measure participant's preferred characteristics of leaders. The implicit followership scale (Sy, 2010) was utilized to measure participant's preferred characteristics of followers. Data analysis was conducted utilizing principal components analysis (PCA) to determine the factor structures of both leadership and followership. A one-way ANOVA was conducted on the results of these factor analyses to test whether there were any differences which could be attributed to membership in a generational cohort. Cluster analysis was also conducted. The results indicated that generation does not significantly influence an individual's preferred characteristics of leaders or followers. Implications for theory, practice and further research are also discussed.
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Hernandez-Cartaya, Rebecca A. "Help Me Chat: Eliciting Communicative Acts from Young Children Using Speech-Generating Devices." FIU Digital Commons, 2016. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/2538.
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Augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) is an evidence-based practice targeting the communication deficits of children with complex communication needs (CCN). While young children with communication disorders are attending preschool and using AAC, and specifically speech-generating devices (SGDs), with increasing frequency, best practices for implementation with this population are largely unexplored. In an effort to contribute to the knowledge base for teachers, the essential communication partners for children in the classroom setting, this research explored the interactions of four teacher-child dyads and analyzed the prompts and cues used to elicit communicative acts from the children.
Results of statistical and descriptive analyses revealed that, while teachers overwhelmingly favor and use verbal prompts over other stimuli, these prompts were no more effective in eliciting communicative acts. These results indicate that teachers would benefit from instruction in a variety of techniques for enhancing communication via AAC; future research directions towards this purpose are detailed.
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Huq, Mohammed Azizul. "Traffic Measurement and Timestamp Accuracy Evaluation of Java ME Traffic Generator on Smartphone." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Sektionen för datavetenskap och kommunikation, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-5143.
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Research on network traffic measurement is becoming popular because it could find the reason and valuable information regarding the occurrence of timestamp accuracy error. In this thesis the performance of UDP traffic between application level and link level has been investigated on three different Smartphone operating systems. One Java ME traffic generator and sink was developed for this thesis work. Distributed Passive Measurement Infrastructure with Measurement Point was used for the experiment. To get high timestamp accuracy DAG 3.5E card was used which was synchronized with GPS. Through the different tests under different protocol layers, it can be concluded that the Android mobile performs better as Java ME application works like a native application, whereas Symbian and Windows mobile struggles with incompatible implementation for poor JVM support. Time stamping at link level is more accurate and far different from application level. This thesis also investigated the performance evaluation of different JVM for Windows mobile.
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Showell, Lorna Jean. "Dear me : exploring the experience of generating self-compassion through letter writing in adults with eating disorders." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/27730.
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Literature Review: The aim of the current literature review was to examine the evidence for expressive writing as an effective intervention in reducing symptoms in those presenting with eating disorders. A systematic search identified eight articles that met the selection criteria and were included in the review. The results suggested that the expressive writing task employed, and the subsequent findings of studies are variable. The review argued that further research is beneficial to determine the effectiveness of writing interventions for individuals with eating disorders and the mechanisms by which they may work. Research Report: Despite previous research acknowledging the prevalence of eating disorders and the difficulties associated with effective interventions, there is currently limited research investigating alternative treatments across eating disorder diagnoses. The aim of the research report was to explore the experiences of adults with eating disorders in generating self-compassion through letter writing. Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis was used to analyse the transcripts from seven participant interviews. Three overarching themes emerged: the alien concept; leaving familiarity, letter writing as a journey and finding self-compassion. Implications for eating disorder services were made based on the experiences of these participants. Future research regarding the use of self-compassion is advocated, as well as the suggestion for a transdiagnostic approach. Critical Appraisal: The critical appraisal provides an account of the researcher’s journey and reflections on the research process.
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Donkersloot, Rachel. "What keeps me here : gendered and generational perspectives on rural life and leaving in an Irish fishing locale." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/32458.
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At the most fundamental level, this dissertation aims to promote a better understanding of rural youth emigration through consideration of the importance of ‘place’ in young people’s lives and life choices. Within this over-arching aim, I draw important linkages between the gendered dimensions of rural youth experience and gender disparities in patterns of rural youth out-migration.
The out-migration of young people from rural regions is a selective and highly gendered process suggesting considerable differentiation in the way young men and women identify with and experience rural life. Based in the coastal community of Killybegs in the southwest corner of County Donegal, Ireland, this study examines gender differences in the ways in which local youth perceive, experience, and cope with life at home. This includes decisions to emigrate. Central to this endeavor is a theory of social positioning and recognition of the ways in which (social, cultural and symbolic) capital is embodied, gendered and context specific. An underlying objective of this research is to confront discourse which locates ‘stayers’ as a homogenous group of underachievers. To do this I demonstrate the importance of situating young people’s migration decisions in the context of their social groups and locations. I situate young people’s life-paths, not against a standardized set of push-pull factors, but within the everyday encounters and contexts of their own subjective experiences of place. I pay particular attention to the ways in which young people’s migration (and education) choices are differentially shaped by factors such as family norms, resources and values.
Grounded in a conceptual framework informed by political economy, gender studies, migration studies and rural studies, this study addresses key questions regarding: 1) gender differences in young people’s perceptions and experiences of ‘staying on’ and leaving, 2) how ‘place’ influences migration decisions differently for young men and women, 3) how and why the social characteristics of migrants and non-migrants, including educational qualifications and social-class background, differ, and 4) how decisions to migrate are made, including weight of parental expectation and how youth emigration, and its local implications, are perceived by the sending community of teachers, parents and peers.
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Richard, Byron Marvin. ""DADDY, ROOT ME IN": TETHERING YOUNG SONS IN THE CONTEXT OF MALE, INTER-GENERATIONAL, CHILD-CENTERED, DANCE EDUCATION." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2009. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/37316.
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This study of the dance experiences of related men and boys pursues overlapping and related research goals. It is an investigation about reflective teaching practice in the process of developing an emergent curriculum for this multi-generational group of men and boys. It is an investigation about the communicative moments between participants through which members expressed their pedagogical regard for each other, their needs, desires and their dance learning. And it is an investigation about this group of men and boys as an example of aesthetic community, a community engaged in expressing and mediating individual style and dispositions through a group process and resulting in deeply shared aesthetic meanings and group style. Fourteen participants in six family groups danced together on seven Saturdays in a small community north of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Participants ranged in age from five-years old to more than forty-five years old. Dance curriculum was designed in reference to the teacher's knowledge and experience of creative movement for primary aged children, and in reference to the teacher's dance performance and choreographic experiences and experiences of parenting. Based on detailed transcriptions of two-camera video documentation of the seven sessions, a narrative analysis thickly describes significant movements of participants, before, during and after the sessions, as well as interactions and participants' utterances. Post-session captioned drawings are discussed in detail following each session. Major findings are then presented as related to three research goals: reflective practice for emergent curriculum design, intersubjectivity as it occurred in this example of inter-generational dance education and an examination of this group of learners as an example of aesthetic community. Findings are discussed in relation to relevant literature and recommendations posed for further research.
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Madero, Flor Leos. "Look at me now! : Exploring identity narratives of first generation, Mexican-American college students." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2012-08-6090.
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Although the Mexican population continues to be the largest Hispanic group in the United States, educational attainment is not increasing at a proportionate rate. First generation, Mexican-American students continue to have low enrollment in higher education institutions and high levels of attrition. Socioeconomic variables and ethnicity have correlated highly with these outcomes for thirty years, and programs have proliferated to address them, without much impact. Perhaps we need new approaches. This study investigates the lived experience of students attempting a university education. The goal of this research was to take the topic of educational achievement one step further by exploring identity development factors for first generation, Mexican-American college students via personal narratives. Researchers have long observed that people come to make sense of life via stories (Bruner, 1990; McAdams, 1985; Sarbin, 1986). Personal stories help to make sense of the past as well as foresee the future while helping to define current identity via recalling and/or retelling stories, particularly for emerging adults.
Identity creation and negation was explored via McAdams’ life story model of identity: identity is an ever changing life story that strives for psychosocial unity and seeks purpose in relation to the world.
The data collected from sixteen first generation, Mexican-American students at one university revealed that factors such as familial connections, cultural capital, generational immigration status, and self-discovery opportunities contribute to the ongoing creation and negotiation of identity. The outcome was the development of an identity soundboard which provides a visual representation of identity factors, each with its own control button, which is constantly adjusted according to individual experiences and narratives. The significance of these results is two-fold. One, it provides students and educators with a new perspective on identity development which can translate into new ways to address academic retention, attrition, and success. And two, it provides identity researchers with a new, customizable model with which to explore a variety of identity development processes, adaptable to specific research interests.
The Hispanic community is a key player to the nation’s economic future, making efforts to foster a well-educated workforce a priority. Colleges and universities stand to benefit from a tailored approach to outreach and retention of students. It is by obtaining a glimpse of students’ reality that we can, as faculty, staff, and administrators, make changes that can positively affect their educational experience and outcome.text
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Chen, Ching-Fang, and 陳慶芳. "Take me home: a story about self-positioning by surfing through two-generation conflicts." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/8pw52d.
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At first, I was opposed to applying narrative psychology to compose my dissertation. After some resistances and struggles , I embraced self-narrative methodology and I know that my life story will continually be written on by me as well. The change was influenced by my supervisor professor Wang Xing, who “lures” me to orient my original setting of using prediction and decision-making method from << The Book of Change>> to start with to the alteration of presenting my dissertation as a self-narrative context, which is more authentic to my life. I appreciate this twist enabling me to see myself from a new horizon and put myself into perspective. My narrative began with the notion from professor Kai-Cheng Wong ’s teaching：one’s primitive memory is the divination of one’s life; this made clear that my life homework surrounded with the issue of “ giving away.” When I was very little, I was “ sent back” from my parents’ home to be put in an unfamiliar position in relation to a large family ties. After my grandfather passed away, I even decisively jumped in a position that I shouldn’t take. Even though I acquired a sense of the first-son alike superiority on this role, I used this superiority as a weapon to assault other family members around me. Although I held a deep affection to hold the Chen family together behind my those giving-in situations to positions that were not mine to take, I never got the sense of belonging in the family due to wrong efforts . I grew to looking for emotional supports outside the family and hurt myself severely along the way. By studying in this school, I get to know narrative psychology that helps me examine the facts of how I got in those wrong “positions” in my life. I start the learning of “ abandoning positions that are not mine to take,” which involves happily and easily giving away wrong “positions” in relations and finding back the sensibility of oneself and truly respecting and understanding others. This is a story of going “home,” where the address is in heart. The process includes dealing with the dilemma of getting in wrong “positions” in relations, the clinging to some affections and manipulation. All above situations revolve around “ affections.” Through the repetition of those “tests” in this earthly world, I am learning to put my affections into right places, allowing others to become themselves and me to be myself thus moving forward through those constantly changing and rebalancing affections. I dedicate this dissertation to my forever supervisor professor Wang Xing.
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"Is It Really Up To Me? Academic and Life Tensions for "Double First-Generation" College Students." Doctoral diss., 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.17832.
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abstract: This study examined the experiences of first-generation college students who were enrolled in online degree programs at a traditional brick-and-mortar university located in the western United States. These students were viewed as "double first-generation" because they were not only the first in their family to pursue a bachelor's degree, but were also among the first generation in the history of American higher education to pursue public, postsecondary education in an entirely online format. The research was designed as a multiple methods case study that emphasized qualitative methods. Being exploratory in nature, the study focused on participant characteristics and the ways that they responded to and persisted in online degree programs. Data was collected through research that was conducted entirely online; it included an e-survey, two asynchronous focus groups, and individual interviews that were conducted via Skype. Grounded theory served as the primary method for data analysis, while quantitative descriptive statistics contextualized the case. The results of this study provide a window into the micro- and macro-level tensions at play in public, online postsecondary education. The findings indicate that these pioneering and traditionally underserved students drew from their diverse backgrounds to persist toward degree completion, overcoming challenges associated with time and finances, in hopes that their efforts would bring career and social mobility. As one of the first studies to critically examine the case of double first-generation college students, this study extends the literature in meaningful ways to provide valuable insights for policymakers, administrators, faculty, and staff who are involved with this population.Dissertation/Thesis
Ph.D. Educational Leadership and Policy Studies 2013
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Zevallos, Zuleyka. ""You have to be Anglo and not look like me" identity constructions of second generation migrant-Australian women /." 2004. http://adt.lib.swin.edu.au/uploads/approved/adt-VSWT20050323.142704/public/02whole.pdf.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Swinburne University of Technology, School of Social and Behavioural Sciences."September 2004." Title taken from title screen (viewed October 8, 2007). Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-289) and appendices.
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Yi-AnShen and 沈翊安. "Generation Me Trait and Consumer Socialization Process on Content Sharing in SNSs: Social Comparison and Anticipated Emotions as Moderators." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/99152138664160594499.
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Generation Me are people with traits such as high self-worth evaluation, lower need for social approval, externality of control, and neuroticism. These traits make Generation Me consumers more self-centered, less likely to agree and share contents other people shared. However, Generation Me is the most active users of social networking sites and content sharers. Therefore, why Generation Me consumers are willing to share contents received through social networking sites is the major issue of this study. The study adopts consumer socialization theory as research basis to examine whether traits of Generation Me will be weaken by the influences from consumer socialization process thus more willing to share digital contents posted. The current study also hypothesizes that social comparison and anticipated emotions moderates content sharing behavior of Generation Me. By using internet-base questionnaire, 401 valid online questionnaires were collected, and analyzed with SEM and Competing Model. The results suggest Generation Me traits are valid antecedents of consumer socialization theory, it has influences on social influences, social influences have significant effects on attitudes, and attitudes have direct effects on content sharing behavior. The moderators, social comparison and anticipated emotion are both proven to have moderating power on consumer socialization process. This study suggests, even though Generation Me demonstrate individualized characteristics, they are still influenced by the process of consumer socialization.
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Bastedo, Heather. "They Don't Stand for Me: Generational Difference in Voter Motivation and the Importance of Symbolic Representation in Youth Voter Turnout." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1807/32663.
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Building from Hannah Pitkin’s work on forms of representative democracy, this thesis demonstrates how differing generational expectations of political representation affect participation in electoral politics. Consistent with earlier work, it confirms that youth voting decreases when young people are less educated, less interested, or when they lack a sense of responsibility. However these factors only explain part—and not necessarily the most important part—of the younger generation’s motivations for voting. The analysis also shows that youth are markedly less likely to vote when young people feel that their values are not aligned with those of political leaders. The relationship between values—or symbolic representation—and voting remains significant and strong for young people even when the classic predictors of voting are included in the model. In fact, symbolic representation is a stronger predictor of voting than such factors as education, political interest, or the sense of responsibility to vote. This new variable is therefore important in understanding why the most recent decline in voting occurs predominantly among youth.
Issue campaigns are less likely to move young people one way or another with respect to voting, as the majority of issues do not affect young people directly, if at all. As a consequence youth are left to rely on their own understanding of what political leaders actually stand for to pull them in or entice them to vote. But if the values that young people care about are not symbolically represented by political leaders and their electoral platforms, then youth will have less to vote for, and will likely just stay home and ignore elections altogether. Conversely, if political leaders make modest changes to their campaign strategies that also appeal to values—rather than strictly to interests—we could also see an increase in turnout among youth, and therefore an increase in democratic legitimacy.
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DuBois, R. Luke DuBois R. Luke DuBois R. Luke DuBois R. Luke. "Applications of generative string-substitutions in computer music ; Growing pains : for mandolin and electronics ; Repeat after me ; Biology I/II/III /." 2003. http://music.columbia.edu/%7Eluke/dissertation/.
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Thesis (D.M.A.)--Columbia University, 2003.Repeat after me for flute and electronics; Biology I/II/III for violin. First work is a commentary to accompany the three scores. Department: Music. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 98-101). Pro Quest Digital Dissertations Online; Subscription required. Also available via the World Wide Web;